If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 75 Mandarin Duck Formation·Change
With soldiers, money, and all the conditions in place, Zhu Zhanquan naturally trained his troops faster.

Zhu Zhanqun didn't need to worry about daily training. As the deputy general, Fan Zhong worked very hard. Compared with him, the commander who was almost a hands-off boss, Fan Zhong, the commander and colleague, was more like a commander.

However, this is not bad. After all, Zhu Zhanquan is the emperor's grandson. On weekdays, this guard post is still left to Fan Zhong, who is his deputy. He himself does not interfere much in daily military affairs.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhu Zhanyu does not care about the guard under his command.

The jade medicine that the soldiers took every day, the broken jade fist that they practiced, and the exercises they used for daily training were all good things brought out by Zhu Zhanquan.

It's just that unlike those traditional famous generals who lead troops, Zhu Zhanju can love his soldiers as his own sons, undress and feed ordinary soldiers.

In Zhu Zhanyu's view, as a general who commands the army, it is enough to be like Huo Qubing. As long as he can fight and win battles, whether he is good to the soldiers or not does not affect whether he is a famous general.

When Huo Qubing led troops to fight, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even sent eunuchs to send him dozens of carts of wine and meat to prevent him from not eating well. Historical records say: When he joined the army, the emperor sent eunuchs to bring dozens of carts to him. After returning them, the heavy carts were left over. Abandon the rice and meat, and the scholars will be hungry.

The soldiers had no food to eat, and Huo Qubing did not share the wine and meat given by the emperor to the soldiers. He even asked the soldiers to build a court for Cuju when the soldiers had no strength because they did not have enough to eat. This probably broke a lot of people's minds. People's imagination of famous generals.

The same is true for Zhu Zhanjun. As long as the soldiers are trained to be elite, so that they can obey orders and prohibitions on the battlefield, and can accurately and efficiently execute the general's orders, it is enough for the generals who command the troops.

Like Wu Qi, who wore the same clothes as the soldiers and went to suck the wounds of the soldiers when they had abscesses. Although the soldiers were willing to die for him, it also made a general lose the dignity he should have.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanquan still preferred Qi Jiguang's way of leading troops, requiring his soldiers to follow strict discipline and military law, so that the soldiers would fight bravely on the battlefield because of strict discipline, rather than relying on the personal favors of the generals.

This is also the main reason why the drill code he used to train soldiers is Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Jixiao". It is not that Zhu Zhanquan does not know other training methods.

However, although he used the "New Book of Jixiao" as a code of conduct, Zhu Zhanquan did not copy it completely, because when Qi Jiguang wrote the "New Book of Jixiao", it was mainly used to fight against Japanese pirates. Therefore, whether it is the famous Mandarin Duck Formation, it is still famous The wolf milling machines are specially designed according to the characteristics of Japanese pirates.

For example, the wolf mill uses the characteristics of the many branches of moso bamboo to block the enemy's sight and block the slashing of the Japanese pirates' sharp blades, so that the spearmen or musketeers behind the wolf mill can annihilate the enemy.

The Yuanyang Formation itself is a small team combat formation that places great emphasis on teamwork. The cooperation and flexible changes of various weapons such as rattan plates, wolf mills, spears, boring guns and muskets are the essence of the Yuanyang Formation.

Therefore, although Zhu Zhanquan was also letting his soldiers train the Yuanyang Formation, his Yuanyang Formation did not include wolf mills and boring palladiums. Instead, he added muskets and tiger crouching cannons.

The muskets of the early Ming Dynasty were mainly early firearms such as the three-eyed gun. The attack efficiency of this kind of firearm was not ideal, and it was very troublesome to operate and had limited lethality.

The only advantage may be that after shooting the three-eyed gun, you can hold it in your hand as a one-handed hammer, so that it is not like a musket that cannot be used in close combat.But since Zhu Zhanyu had a workshop to make his own ordnance, he naturally would not use such crude things. Instead, after building a small blast furnace to refine the finished steel, he directly loaded it with customized paper-cased bullets and flint. Fire the gun.

Although the flintlock gun cannot be said to be very efficient, when using paper bullets, one minute is enough to fire three to five rounds. Although the three-eyed gun can quickly fire three rounds when it is loaded, But the reloading after the fight is very slow.

Moreover, the structure of the three-eyed blunderbuss also determines that the range of this thing is very advanced, and the power is also unsatisfactory. Qi Jiguang even commented that this thing is "far inferior to the bird blunderbuss. After holding the blunderbuss in the hand, it has to be fired with both hands. It has superior power from far and near." It’s not up to people.”

As for the Tiger Crouching Cannon, this thing is understood to be an early mortar, with a range of about 500 meters. It is light, flexible and easy to carry. A team can carry one and cooperate with the musketeers to form considerable firepower.

Therefore, under such adjustment, the "Mandarin Duck Formation" used by Zhu Zhanyu is still a team of 12 people, one person holds the flag for the captain, two people hold the shield for the shield, four people hold the spear, four people hold the musket, and one person carries the tiger Crouching gun.

During combat, the captain will be responsible for carrying the ammunition of the Tiger Crouching Cannon and assisting the gunner in loading and firing.

After all, even after taking the jade medicine, the soldiers' physical fitness was greatly enhanced and they could carry the Tiger Crouching Cannon alone, but they were still unable to carry ammunition for combat at the same time.

Such a team can also be divided into two five-man teams to fight on the battlefield just like the original Yuanyang Formation. Moreover, it has an advantage over the original Yuanyang Formation in that it can provide sufficient firepower output.

According to the composition of the Ming Dynasty's guard station, ten such teams constitute one hundred households, ten hundred households constitute one thousand household, and five thousand households constitute one guard station. If Zhu Zhanquan's guard station has such a configuration, , you can have at least [-] such squads, with [-] flintlock muskets and [-] tiger squat cannons.

In the early Ming Dynasty, this kind of firepower was enough to crush everything.

Of course, Zhu Zhanjun did not configure all his five thousand-household stations in this way. He only arranged four of them in this way, and the remaining one thousand-household station was the cavalry he had planned long ago.

One month was enough for Yang Pu to recruit enough soldiers in Yiwu, and it was also enough for the imperial court to transfer enough soldiers who were good at riding and shooting to Zhu Zhanqun from the north.

Regarding the cavalry, Zhu Zhanqi did not make any special changes. In addition to equipping the cavalry with the same cloth armor as the infantry and taking jade medicine, he also made some adjustments to the feed of the horses to make these horses run faster. It's just faster, has better endurance, and can also bear more weight.

After all, these horses are just ordinary breeds. If you want to make a big improvement, in addition to feeding them special forage to make them stronger, you also need to cultivate their bloodlines. It will take at least two to three generations to cultivate horses that are comparable in size to Shire horses and can run well. Its speed is comparable to that of Arabian horses, and its endurance exceeds that of Mongolian horses.

And right now, not to mention improving the breed of war horses, only a quarter of the soldiers' armor and weapons are available due to the day and night work of the workshop. Among the five thousand households, only one of them has noble children. The cavalry of Qianhu and about two hundred households were fully equipped.

However, under such circumstances, Zhu Zhanji came to Zhu Zhankun to borrow troops.

(End of this chapter)